{"id":61828,"date":"2018-10-29T19:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-football-team-qualifies-for-class-2a-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T01:08:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T01:08:46","slug":"m-chs-football-team-qualifies-for-class-2a-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-football-team-qualifies-for-class-2a-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS football team qualifies for Class 2A Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1fc5ce79-e640-4bd3-ad78-cd9e495515d4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"Ike Dennison fakes to Jacob Schuster and takes the ball around the end earlier this year against Bloomfield.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Ike Dennison fakes to Jacob Schuster and takes the ball around the end earlier this year against Bloomfield.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After finishing its season with a 4-5 record overall, the Montezuma-Cortez High School football team was not necessarily expecting to qualify for the Class 2A playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Big wins over Kirtland Central and Alamosa, as well as a five-point road loss to Delta, boosted the Panthers\u2019 resume however, and when brackets for the Class 2A Tournament were released, M-CHS found itself seeded 16th in the 16-team field.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Panthers will have an opportunity to pull what would certainly be one of the biggest upsets in recent memory when they hit the road for a matchup against top-seeded Bayfield on Nov. 2 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>While the defending state champion Wolverines figure to present numerous matchup problems for M-CHS, the Panthers will at least be familiar with their Intermountain League opponent, who defeated them 39-3 earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS\u2019 trip to the Class 2A playoffs figures to be especially gratifying for head coach Scott Conklin and the Panthers\u2019 large group of seniors, who have been playing together since before middle school.<\/p>\n<p>This season will mark the first time that the Panthers have appeared in the playoffs since 2014, when the team defeated St. Mary\u2019s in the opening round before falling to Kent Denver in the state quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>In the event that M-CHS were to defeat Bayfield later this week, the Panthers would face  the winner of a matchup between Kent Denver and Faith Christian in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers will face off against rival Bayfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,29,2343],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-61828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-sports-group"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61828"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=61828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}